Rendering A Long Movie In Sony Vegas 11

[Jim Greene]

Two hours is really the max I ever try with a DVD, anything more will suffer visual quality. You could try to render out to a Sony MXF format and then let DVD Arch. re-render it for you to see if it looks better, but you are past the general limits for a DVD.

-Jim.

[Jude Alexander]

Hey Jim,

Unfortunately the director has been trying to cut the movie down and failing. So I think this is the runtime we’re stuck with.

How low would the quality go if I rendered it in the Sony MXF format?
I’ve definitely given up on getting the quality in 1080 at this point.

What settings should I use? (Sorry, I am REALLY new to this)

[John Rofrano]

[Jude Alexander] “Unfortunately the director has been trying to cut the movie down and failing. So I think this is the runtime we’re stuck with. “

Use a Dual-Layer DVD. An 8.5 GB dual-layer DVD recordable disc can store approximately 4 hours of MPEG-2 video.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Frank Stevn]

You can’t record 1080 resolution video in a DVD, which is limited to 720×480 (480p).

If you need more quality go with Blu-ray. Blu-ray’s maximum resolution is 1,920×1,080 (1080p), while is capable of storing 50GB.

[Jude Alexander]

Ok,

I’m mostly focused on getting the file rendered to a size that will fit on a disk.
If I set it to the 720 by 480 resolution, which file type would work best?
And what specific settings should I go with?

Or should I just send it to DVD Architect and Vegas will automatically select the correct settings?

[John Rofrano]

[Jude Alexander] “I’m mostly focused on getting the file rendered to a size that will fit on a disk.”

I’m not sure if you are understand that the “Hollywood” DVD’s that you buy in a store that exceed 2 hrs are using dual-layer discs. What you need to do is purchase dual-layer DVD’s so that your movie will fit fine.

[Jude Alexander] “If I set it to the 720 by 480 resolution, which file type would work best?”

There is only one type. NTSC DVD’s require MPEG2 video with either PCM or AC3 audio.

[Jude Alexander] “And what specific settings should I go with?”

Use the Main Concept MPEG2 with the DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream template for the video, and then render the audio using Dolby Digital AC-3 with the Stereo DVD template (unless your project is 5.1 surround). Give both files the same name with different extensions (.mpg & .ac3) and DVD Architect will understand that both streams go together.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Trau Con]

Hi John,
I learned a lot from your VASST DVD. I have used DVDA version 5 & 5.2. Usually I created DVDs with up to 1 hour of contents. The DVD menu may contains scene selections. All materials are rendered in Vegas with DVD architect and AC3 templates. Usually it would takes about 15-20 minutes max from start to finish.
Recently, I dont know what happen but now it takes me some time an hour just to complete the RENDERING before heading toward PREPARING and BURNING steps.
I’m very sure that ALL of my video are encoded in DVD architect & AC3. I noticed that if I take away all the video in the menu so that I have only the text menu in the main menu, then it would take me about 15-20minutes to complete.
I think that somehow DVDA automatically RE-render all of my video even though these video had already been rendered.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thank you, John.

[Nigel O’neill]

Jude

The only addition I can make to John’s excellent advice is changing your book type to DVD ROM in IMGBurn or Nero for your dual layer discs during the burn phase, to ensure maximum playback compatibility with commercial DVD players out there.

[Jude Alexander]

John,

Thank you SO much for your advice! That is exactly what I needed.
I’m buying dual-layer DVDs today and I will let you know how it goes.
Thank you again.

Nigel,

[Nigel O'Neill] “changing your book type to DVD ROM in IMGBurn or Nero for your dual layer discs during the burn phase”

Can you walk me through how I would do this?

[Nigel O’neill]

Nero

The book type setting information is in section 13

https://www.k-probe.com/bitsetting-booktype-faq.php

IMGBurn

https://www.digital-digest.com/articles/set_booktype_with_imgburn_page1.html